TY - GEN
T1 - Engagement detection for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
AU - Chorianopoulou, Arodami
AU - Tzinis, Efthymios
AU - Iosif, Elias
AU - Papoulidi, Asimenia
AU - Papailiou, Christina
AU - Potamianos, Alexandros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/6/16
Y1 - 2017/6/16
N2 - Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face several difficulties in social communication. Hence, analyzing social interaction can provide insight on their social and cognitive skills. In this paper, we investigate the degree of engagement of children in interactions with their parents. Features derived from both participants including acoustic, linguistic and dialogue act features are explored. The effect of visual cues is also investigated. We experimented on the task of engagement detection using video-recorded sessions consisting of interactions of typically developing (TD) and ASD children. Results show that engagement is easier to predict for TD children than for ASD children, and that the parent's actions/movements are better predictors of the child's degree of engagement.
AB - Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face several difficulties in social communication. Hence, analyzing social interaction can provide insight on their social and cognitive skills. In this paper, we investigate the degree of engagement of children in interactions with their parents. Features derived from both participants including acoustic, linguistic and dialogue act features are explored. The effect of visual cues is also investigated. We experimented on the task of engagement detection using video-recorded sessions consisting of interactions of typically developing (TD) and ASD children. Results show that engagement is easier to predict for TD children than for ASD children, and that the parent's actions/movements are better predictors of the child's degree of engagement.
KW - autism spectrum disorder
KW - child engagement
KW - engagement detection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023771924&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953119
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953119
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85023771924
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 5055
EP - 5059
BT - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Y2 - 5 March 2017 through 9 March 2017
ER -